cutlerjd / multi_docker_skeleton

multi_docker_skeleton

Went down a rabbit hole of "setting up a project" mixed with "what else can I do with Docker?".

TADA!

Running docker-compose up --build in the root directory will piece together four things:

1. nginx proxy
2. postgres db (persistent data, needs initialize db script set up)
3. frontend of React

• Does a build and only keeps the /build folder to hand off to nginx

4. api of express with typescript

• Runs as node app, only using the /dist folder and not in nodemon

Where it still gets interesting!!

Go into each of these folders and there is yet another docker-compose.yml to run each of these again with docker-compose up --build. It will pass in your source code folder as a volume, and run all of the npm tools to do development in the docker container! You can literally develop this project without running npm install.

api

Runs nodemon with typescript compiler (and tslint).

frontend

Runs the create-react-app serve.js

This is all still a work in progress.